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Mildred D. Taylor's Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor, is the Author of the book, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry. She writes all kinds of different other books such as Song of the Trees, Let the Circle be Unbroken, The Gold Cadillac, etc. She is an African American writer and known for this book, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry. Also born on September 13, 1943. She Writes books about African American people and what went wrong because she went through a problem with the Deep South people, and is teaching people not to be the way they are. No matter what color skin they

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